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Nigeria’s Juneteenth: The Freedom Still Out of Reach

Nigeria’s Juneteenth: The Freedom Still Out of Reach

What’s worse than being enslaved? Being free and not knowing it,  while your captors do. That’s what Juneteenth reveals. On June 19, 1865,  two years after President Lincoln had already signed the Emancipation Proclamation,  enslaved Black people in Galveston, Texas finally received word: slavery was over and they were free, technically. But what do you...